BERLIN: The Wall Triumphant

It was still pitch dark when the Soviet T-345
tanks clattered up to Brandenburg Gate and East German soldiers began
unloading the first concrete blocks and the barbed wire. As the day
dawned, crowds of Berliners gathered to watch what was happening: the
building of a giant wall through the heart of their city. Last week, on
the 15th anniversary of that gray morning, thousands of East German
Communists paraded near the 25-mile barricade to celebrate it as a
protection against "Western revanchists and provocateurs." On the
Western side, the Christian Democrats countered with a solemn
torchlight march to...